Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee
Date:
[1959?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In addition, a number of children presenting educational problems were individually investigated and discussed with their teachers. Work was also begun on the individual assessment of all members of the retarded stream in a Caernarvonshire secondary school. Similarly, in Flintshire, Mr. Karle carried out individual assessments on a considerable number of children. In addition, there were two new developments. The first was his investigation of all pupils in the retarded class of one primary school, submitting a report to the Chief Education Officer and Prin¬ cipal School Medical Officer with recommendations on approach and organisation and, in addition, discussing the children in detail with the teacher. The second was in response to the request of a Headmaster. The whole intake of one secondary bilateral school with an isolated rural catchment area was tested by means of a group non-verbal test of ability, so that the grouping of children and development of a special class was facilitated, and the children likely to present educational problems were investigated individually by the psychologist. A request was received from the Principal School Medical Officer and Chief Education Officer of Merioneth for an investigation into the problem of backwardness in a primary school, with particular difficulties arising from local conditions. This investigation is under way, promises to be most in¬ teresting from the psychological viewpoint, and is likely to lead to the institution of a remedial class. In all counties, much useful informal work on other children was done by means of discussion with teachers arising from visits on behalf of clinic cases. Several children were brought forward for advice or investigation on the initiative of the teachers themselves and it is gratifying that teachers are becoming increasingly ready to refer children for psychological help. Two new developments have taken the School Psychological Service fur¬ ther into the educational held. A group of Flintshire head-teachers and the Senior Psychologist con¬ structed a new objective test of arithmetic attainment suitable for 8 year old children. This is now nearly ready for standardisation. The most important development, however, because of the scope of the activity involved and its educational implications, has been the request by two education authorities for a survey of the ability and attainments of a complete age-group of children. In Flintshire, following recommendations made in a previous report on an investigation of children in the retarded classes of the secondary modern schools and discussion between the Deputy Education Officer, Principal School
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